Uncharted Lancaster: Enola Low-Grade Adventure
Difficulty: 🤠🤠🤠🤠
Distance: 27.6 miles of completely level terrain (unless you leave the rail trail).
What to bring: A bicycle to speed your journey, an internet-connected device with GPS, and a digital camera.
With almost 28 miles of accessible trail finding the right spot is a real challenge. As such, there are two ways to complete this adventure. But first, if you want to learn more about the Atglen & Susquehanna’s history. Click here.
Needle in a Haystack
Traverse the Enola Low-Grade Trail until you find the location shown in the image below.
Standing in the spot where the picture was taken. Turn to your 8 o’clock position and walk until you find the hole above eye level in the wall of this small valley.
Look inside the hole to claim your reward.
Hidden Treasure
If you can complete the Uncharted Lancaster: Enola Low-Grade Adventure, you will be rewarded with one of the 882 coins of cursed Aztec Gold. The Aztec Empire delivered a stone chest with 882 pieces of Aztec gold to Hernán Cortés in an attempt to stop the slaughter of their people.
But in his greed, Cortés refused to halt his conquest. In response, the heathen gods placed a curse upon the gold, so that any mortal who removed a single coin from the chest would be punished for eternity. The only way to lift the curse was to return all the Aztec gold pieces to the chest and pay the heathen gods back in blood.
So, it goes without saying, remove at your own risk.
If the supply of gold coins get low, contact Uncharted Lancaster so we can refill the case.
Longer Two Stop Method
Find the culvert that Trout Run flows through. The culvert can be accessed via Pennsy Road, or you can walk there on the Enola Low-Grade Trail via the Red Hill trail access parking area.
Almost directly above the culvert, find the transmission pole line. The pole has an information plate on it. Find the pole’s weight and enter the five-digit number as the password to access the location of this adventure’s treasure.
Learn More
If you want to learn more about the history of the Enola Low-Grade before starting the adventure, click here.
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